A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother in absentia for murder, torture and crimes ...

More than 2,000 people have now died in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and challenges keep coming in containing a rare type of ...

Former Japan Business Federation head Hiroshi Okuda, who also served as president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., has died, accor ...

Rents are rising across Japan, particularly in Tokyo, driven by higher land prices, materials costs and labor expenses. In some cases, proper ...

(AP) -- A few years ago, a pop culture store owner in Wisconsin mentioned to Jason Ganos, a well-known Nintendo game collector, that he had a box of Super Mario cartridges that had been sitting in ...

Shanghai airports canceled hundreds of flights on Monday as Tropical Storm Dolphin dumped heavy rain in eastern China, ...

Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-4 with an RBI and scored the decisive run as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Kansas City Royals ...

(AP) -- President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was ...

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. said Tuesday it will begin mass production of next-generation image sensors with Taiwan Semiconduc ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- North Korea launched a projectile that could have been a ballistic missile, Japan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday morning. According to a ministry source, any such projectile has ...

Rescue crews and civilians in Colombia painstakingly searched through rubble Tuesday in the hopes of finding survivors trapp ...

The Japanese government is moving to improve working conditions for national civil servants amid criticism of the grueling work culture in th ...